Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

24. The Cow

THE FRIENDLY cow all red and white

I love with all my heart:

She gives me cream with all her might,

To eat with apple-tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,

And yet she cannot stray,

All in the pleasant open air,

The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass

And wet with all the showers,

She walks among the meadow grass

And eats the meadow flowers.